The Old 97, a Southern Railway train officially known as the Fast Mail, derails near Danville, Va., killing engineer Joseph ?Steve? Broady and ten other railroad and postal workers.
The Workingman's Advocate of Chicago publishes the first installment of The Other Side, by Martin A. Foran, president of the Coopers' Int?l Union. Believed to be the first novel by a trade union leader and some say the first working-class novel ever published in the U.S. - 1868